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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
17
A compact quotation asserts that despite broad efforts of farmers and merchants to supply good food, a single cook in the kitchen can spoil the product in an hour. It underscores the power of individual cookery.
A reader-supplied recipe collection features Mexican Hash, Boiled Ham with chili, Tripe Mexican Style, Kidney With Chili, Carne de Olla, and other chili seasoned dishes. Also includes health tips, baked beans with sausage, roast beef with onions, stuffed calves hearts, carrot salad, scalloped tomatoes with eggs, cabbage with cheese, and notes on growing sweet sorghum for syrup with practical processing steps.
The U S department of agriculture urges farmers to boost sorghum sirup production to ease sugar shortages. It notes sorghum is easy to grow and process, suitable for small outfits yielding 100 gallons daily, with community plants for larger operations.
The piece notes large imports of Turkestan alfalfa seed, deemed inferior to native Kansas and Nebraska alfalfa by the USDA. It says the Turkestan variety is less hardy and productive, and can be identified by Russian Knap-Weed seeds, which are larger and chalky white.
A careful study shows direct contact with infected animals as the main spread method in dairy stables. The common drinking trough fosters spread and contaminated hay straw and feed with sputum discharges from diseased animals also transmit the disease.
Instructions describe making poison bait by mixing 50 pounds bran or cornmeal, two pounds of paris green, and two quarts of molasses to form a stiff dough. Add water if needed and scatter along the corn row. Caution notes warn the poison will also kill birds and advise careful use.
A USDA dairy specialist notes corn silage corn fodder and corn stover enhance dairy rations and profitability, especially where legumes fail. Contesting association reports suggest more corn roughage and less non legume hay can improve feeding efficiency, while legumes remain valuable where they thrive.
Experimental work from South Carolina and Pennsylvania shows corn silage and corn fodder can replace hay in dairy cow rations under certain conditions. Reports from a cow testing association indicate high income and lower feed costs where hay feeding has largely stopped in favor of silage and corn by products. Storms and maturity do not lessen corn’s feeding value, supporting reduced reliance on non leguminous feeds.
Dairy notes emphasize feeding cows well and washing utensils after contact with milk. It highlights using roughage like grass and fodder, utilizing waste for dairy value, and preventing contagious abortion with a solution. It also notes wageline jars as essential for cold days to protect teats.
An advertisement touts Bayer aspirin tablets as genuine and safe for millions of users for over twenty years. It urges accepting only unbroken Bayer packages with proper directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism and pain.
A light exchange shows Mrs A asking about a husband’s smoking in the home and Mrs B replying it helps her plan for possible economy. Dr Peery’s Dead Shot is advertised as expelling worms and cleansing the mucus the worms breed in while toning digestion with one dose.
A Yorkshire couple touring London on their honeymoon meet Mrs. Clayton in Regent Street. She greets the bride by name and invites them to tea at Streatham, saying strangers in a new city feel like old friends.
Lucile, age five, admits she skipped prayers because she was sleepy. Her mother asks if she said a prayer, and Lucile explains she prayed seven times last Sunday night before sleep to last the week.
A flashily dressed man enters a jeweler to buy a birthday gift for his sweetheart. He explains his income is fifteen dollars a week and is told he should try the toy shop around the corner.
A little girl visits Mr. Brown and asks for a replacement egg. She explains the egg she bought is bad and points to it on the step outside the shop. The kindly grocer confirms a swap and asks where the egg is. The girl replies she dropped it just now.
A girl confronts a man who misreads her signals in a social exchange. He tries to flirt and is met with indifference, prompting reflection on recognition and social assumptions. The dialogue highlights miscommunication and gendered expectations in everyday interactions.
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